Category Archives: trivia

How to get rid of tavo.exe, kavo.exe trojan

Posted on July 24, 2008 by

Most frivolous Windows users would have had their antivirus shouting at some point of time with a message “Alert! A virus was found” and then popping windows that mention “kavo.exe”. kavo.exe is a smart trojan that installs and autorun.inf in … Continue reading →

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Elisa – The Open Media Center

Posted on June 3, 2008 by

I’m not sure if too many people know about Elisa, quite frankly it is quite amazing that something as wonderful as Elisa is not in the limelight(as yet!). For a quick and brief introduction, Elisa is a sleek next generation … Continue reading →

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SpikeWAMP – Part ii

Posted on May 20, 2008 by

It was not too long ago that I blogged about SpikeWAMP here, SpikeSource has made a release for SpikeWAMP 1.4 beta recently. This time, they have gone one step ahead and created application installers for Drupal, Gallery and phpBB. These … Continue reading →

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Install Skype on Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) + configure sound

Posted on May 1, 2008 by

Here are a  quick set of steps to install skype on Ubuntu 8.04. Download skype static from here Execute the following commands at the terminal: $tar -xvf skype_static-2.0.0.68.tar.bz2 $mv /yourpath/skype_static-2.0.0.68 /usr/share/ $ mv skype_static-2.0.0.68/ skype $ cd skype/ $ cp … Continue reading →

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Windows installers for Linux distributions

Posted on April 22, 2008 by

Much talk has been happening about Wubi that is going to be a part of Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron. Wubi is a utility that allows installation of Ubuntu through Windows! What’s more? You can uninstall it using Add/Remove Programs … Continue reading →

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